Our Doctors

Peter Schulam

Professor of Urology
Chair, Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine
Chief, Department of Urology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Clinical Program Leader, Prostate and Urologic Cancers Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital

Research Interests:minimally invasive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; living kidney donor surgery

Clinical Interests:minimally invasive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; living kidney donor surgery; adrenal disorders; bladder, prostate, and kidney cancer; donor nephrectomy; and kidney stones and kidney reconstruction; endo-urology

Toby Chai

Vice Chair of Research
Co-Director Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Program

Research Interests:urinary incontinence, bladder urothelial biology, neurourology, voiding disorders

Clinical Interests:bladder cancer; prostate cancer; urologic cancer; Female Pelvic Medicine Reconstruction Surgery;

John Colberg

Associate Professor of Urology

Research Interests:urologic oncology

Clinical Interests:Urologic oncology including kidney cancer, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, penile cancer and bladder cancer; robotic surgery

Harris Foster, Jr

Professor of Urology
Director, Female Urology and Neuro-Urology

Research Interests:Benign prostatic hyperplasis clinical trials; Interstitial cystitis clinical trials; Basic science investigations into changes in receptor system in the prostate in response to treatment with standard pharmacotherapies

Clinical Interests:Female urology, urodynamics, neurogenic bladder and incontinence; voiding dysfunction; benign prostatic hyperplasia, renal cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular and penile cancer, prostate cancer; spina bifida patients

Dinesh Singh

Assistant Professor of Urology
Director, Laparoscopy & Endourology

Research Interests:Minimally invasive surgery; urologic oncology; kidney stone disease

Clinical Interests:Pure laparoscopic surgery and robotic assisted surgery for kidney cancer: total nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, cryoablation; prostate cancer; adrenal gland tumors; Ureteropelvic Junction (UPJ) obstruction; testes cancer; kidney stone disease

Preston Sprenkle

Clinical Interests:kidney cancer; acute kidney injury; bladder cancer and prostate cancer, specifically the use of MRI-ultrasound fusion prostate biopsy and prostate cancer active surveillance.

Ralph Stroup

Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology

Charles Walker

Assistant Professor of Urology

Research Interests:High Risk prostate cancer; Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular disease; Geriatrics: Co-Investigator on education grant received from the American Geriatrics Society; Health disparity; Vascular biology of erectile function

Clinical Interests:Men's Health; Erectile Dysfunction; Prosthetic Surgery-inflatable penile prosthesis, artificial urinary sphincter, male sling; BPH and minimally invasive surgery for BPH, Dr. Walker is a national proctor for greenlight laser vaporization of the prostate; Minimally invasive vasectomy; High risk prostate cancer; Testosterone replacement therapy; Laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery for kidney cancer; Cryosurgical ablation for kidney cancer

Adam Hittelman

Assistant Professor of Urology and of Pediatrics and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing
Associate residency director

Research Interests:Molecular and developmental biology focusing on the transcriptional and regulator mechanisms for genitourinary development; Congenital anomalies and urologic malignancies

Clinical Interests:Traditional and minimally-invasive approaches to pediatric urologic surgery; Utilizing laparoscopic, endoscopic, and robotic- assisted techniques; Obstruction of the ureteral pelvic junction (UPJ); Vesicoureteral reflux; Reconstructive surgery for congenital problems such as hypospadias; Ambiguous genitalia; Disorders of sexual development; Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Robert Weiss

Donald Guthrie Professor of Urology
Director, Pediatric Urology

Research Interests:Smooth muscle pharmacology; Signal transduction; Bladder cancer

Clinical Interests:Pediatric oncology (cancer), bladder cancer, testes cancer, hydronephrosis, vesicoureteral reflux, urethral valves, ureteral obstruction, undescended testes, hypospadias

Hari Deshpande

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and of Surgery (Otolaryngology) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing

Research Interests:Clinical trials in head and neck cancer; sarcoma; Genitourinary (GU) cancer; thyroid and endocrine cancers

Clinical Interests:Head and neck cancer; Genitourinary (GU) cancers; sarcomas; thyroid cancer.

Michael Hurwitz

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)

Research Interests:Cell migration; Kinase signaling; Phosphorylation; Cytoskeleton; Engulfment; Apoptosis; C. elegans; Cancer biology

Clinical Interests:genitourinary cancers

Harriet Kluger

Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Associate Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program

Research Interests:Prognostic and predictive markers in melanoma and renal cell carcinoma; development of new drugs for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma

Clinical Interests:Melanoma; renal cell carcinoma; breast cancer Clinical trials using immune and biologic therapies

Daniel Petrylak

Professor
Co-Director, Signal Transduction Research Program

Research Interests:Clinical trials for prostate and bladder cancers

Clinical Interests:genitourinary cancer; prostate cancer; clinical trials for men with prostate and bladder cancer.

John Roberts

Director, Adult Sickle Cell Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital

Research Interests:Clinical trials; clinical trials design.

Clinical Interests:sickle cell disease; urological cancers (prostate, bladder, testicle)

Mario Sznol

Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Vice-Chief, Medical Oncology
Clinical Research Program Leader, Melanoma Program, Yale Cancer Center

Research Interests:Cancer drug development; Cancer immunotherapy and novel agents

Clinical Interests:melanoma; immunologic therapy; renal cell (kidney) carcinoma; Phase I trials

Gary Israel

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Surgery (Urology)
Chief, Body Computed Tomography (CT)

Research Interests:GU radiology; imaging of renal masses

Clinical Interests:Computed Tomography (CT); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis; cancer

Roy Decker

Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Clinical Research Program Leader, Therapeutic Radiology, Yale Cancer Center

Research Interests:Lung Cancer; Head & Neck Cancer; Combined Modality Therapy

Clinical Interests:Head & Neck Cancer; Lung Cancer; Stereotactic Body Radiosurgery

Abhijit Patel

Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology

Research Interests:Circulating tumor-derived DNA; Next-generation sequencing; Selection of nucleic acids from combinatorial libraries

Clinical Interests:Prostate Cancer; Lung Cancer; Breast Cancer; Gastrointestinal Cancers; General Radiation Therapy

Richard Peschel

Professor of Therapeutic Radiology

Research Interests:Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Prostate cancer; Prostate implant; Prostate specific antigen; Radiation therapy

Clinical Interests:General radiation therapy; bladder cancer; testicular cancer; prostate cancer; intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); brachytherapy; lung cancer; lymphoma; breast cancer; melanoma; testes cancer; prostate cancer; renal cancer

James Yu

Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology

Research Interests:Genitourinary cancers; central nervous system cancers; breast cancer; head and neck cancer; IMRT; health outcomes and utilization research

Clinical Interests:Genitourinary cancers; Central Nervous System cancers; prostate brachytherapy; head and neck cancer; lung cancer; breast cancer; radiation oncology

Demetrios Braddock

Associate Professor of Pathology

Research Interests:Structural biology; Hematopathology; Genitourinary Pathology

Clinical Interests:Urologic pathology; hematopathology